An employee was told by his master ‘I am going to falsify these sales notes and deceive the customers. You are not to say anything about it to anyone.’ He thereafter falsified the sale notes.
Held: The servant was entitled to say: ‘I am not going to stay any longer in the service of a man who does such a thing. I will leave him and report it to the customers.’ ‘There is no confidence in the disclosure of iniquity’
Judges:
Wood V-C
Citations:
(1856) 26 LJ Ch113
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Initial Services Ltd v Putterill CA 1967
The plaintiff’s sales manager resigned, but took with him confidential documents which he gave to a newspaper. The defendant sought to justify this, saying that the company had failed to register agreements it should have done under the Act.
Cited – Lion Laboratories Ltd v Evans CA 1985
Lion Laboratories manufactured and marketed the Lion Intoximeter which was used by the police for measuring blood alcohol levels of motorists. Two ex-employees approached the Press with four documents taken from Lion. The documents indicated that . .
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Litigation Practice
Updated: 06 May 2022; Ref: scu.193372